Qin Huai was not sure if Dong Shi had inquired about Xiao Xu from Huang Shengli and Zheng Da because, after the two-day period, there was still no news from Dong Shi.
Qin Huai didn’t ask him either; he was happily making Four Happiness glutinous rice.
While making the Four Happiness glutinous rice, Qin Huai suddenly understood why, on Gong Liang’s birthday back then, Master Jing would cook a pot of shapeless Four Happiness glutinous rice.
Because opening a mystery box is truly joyful.
Especially when there are many people gathered eating dumplings, watching everyone open their mystery boxes doubles the happiness.
Now during the day, Qin Huai goes to work, makes enough guo’er, and then starts making Four Happiness dumplings, first letting the folks in Huang’s Kitchen have a batch of mystery boxes.
In the afternoon, he practices Fire Control with Huang Shengli, works at night, and after getting home, he cooks another batch of Four Happiness dumplings, giving the old patrons of Yunzhong Restaurant a batch of mystery boxes.
Basically, every evening at eight, Qin Huai’s living room is filled with grandpas and grandmas waiting to eat the Four Happiness dumpling mystery boxes. When there is no room in Qin Huai’s house, they sit next door at Gong Liang’s house because Gong Liang and his wife are certainly around at Qin Huai’s place.
Qin Huai’s already abundant kitchen equipment received another upgrade, with a new big pot purchased, specifically for cooking dumplings.
Round dumplings roll in the boiling pot, while Qin Huai calculates the time in his mind. After cooking dumplings for so long, he has gained some insights. If the dumplings are to be cooked to perfection—color, clarity, texture, and firmness—at his current level, it’s definitely unattainable.
However, reaching the basic level of cooking dumplings and performing slightly better while far surpassing Director Qin and leaving her sesame-filled dumpling-cooking skills six blocks behind is no problem.
The steaming hot dumplings are out of the pot.
Ouyang, standing by, eagerly hands over bowls, with a small stack of bowls piled high. Qin Huai swiftly serves four dumplings into each bowl, adds a bit of soup, and places a small spoon.
A perfect night snack.
It’s just that glutinous rice products are a bit filling, and eating too much at night can make it hard to fall asleep.
Of course, the diners eating dumplings today won’t have this problem.
They are all experienced, understanding moderation, knowing that health is the foundation for revolution. If they really overeat and something happens, scaring Master Qin into not cooking dumplings at night anymore, then everyone would have nothing to eat.
It’s clear to everyone that a single satiety and consistent meals are different.
After serving all the dumplings, Qin Huai didn’t let Ouyang take them out but casually opened the game panel, glancing at the experience points for Fire Control, and took a look at the experience points for the other skills.
Now Qin Huai’s skills panel has clearly become:
Player Name: Qin Huai
Unlocked Picture Book: 7/12
Yeast (Advanced level): Your yeast technique has surpassed 96% of the pastry chefs nationwide. (20127/100000)
Filling (Advanced level): Your filling technique has surpassed 97% of the pastry chefs nationwide. (57932/100000)
Finger Skill (Basic): You completely ignore the shaping of pastries. (999/1000)
Oil case (Intermediate): Your fried dough sticks are not bad. (872/10000)
Knife Skills (Basic): Household level. (179/1000)
Fire Control (Intermediate): Still needs effort. (6277/10000)
Food Tasting (Advanced level): Okay, you’re quite good at this. (Cannot be upgraded)
Management (Intermediate): You’re pretty decent at business, won’t go bankrupt. (1999/10000)
Lie (Master Level): You speak human language to humans and ghost language to ghosts, don’t you! (359317/1000000)
Evaluation: A somewhat famous pastry chef.
Eh, Finger Skill is just a bit short of leveling up.
Qin Huai regretted not making two more guo’er tonight. If he hadn’t seen it, it wouldn’t have mattered, but now that he had, without maxing that little experience point, he wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight.
Speaking of these skills’ proficiency, Qin Huai found it quite fascinating.
While some are flourishing, others are languishing.
Now the proficiencies for yeast and seasoning don’t need Qin Huai to intentionally practice at all. As long as he regularly makes snacks, the proficiency grows rapidly, and every snack he makes boosts those two skill proficiencies.
Especially for yeast, as long as you’re making snacks, the yeast proficiency just keeps growing.
However, Qin Huai now wants to practice Fire Control proficiency.
From Zheng Siyuan’s perspective, Qin Huai is undoubtedly a pastry chef who loves the new and forgets the old. He loves each new snack he learns, then discards it once he knows how to make it, always looking at the pot while holding a bowl, with no single new snack maintaining his interest for more than a few months, marking him as a thoroughly unreliable pastry chef.
It’s downright outrageous!
Yet, Qin Huai is blessed with good fortune, always inexplicably obtaining many new snack recipes, and they are all great recipes.
Qin Huai himself also admitted that he does have a bit of infidelity toward snacks, but he can’t be entirely blamed.
There are simply too many side quests, making the mission enormous.
The challenge of the Four Happiness dumplings has not yet been overcome, and now someone has brought the Double Crab Bun recipe to him.
He simply cannot keep up.
Qin Huai is keen to practice Fire Control proficiency to advance this relatively weakest primary skill to an advanced level, but he can only specifically set aside time for practice, and it’s often interrupted by various unexpected situations.
For a pastry chef, Fire Control is not so crucial.
After coming to Huang Ji, Qin Huai deeply felt that as long as the skills are in place, for a master chef, any weakness is a minor issue.
If Fire Control is lacking, just find a few white pastry or even red meat chefs with good Fire Control to assist.
If Finger Skills are lacking, then select a few white pastry chefs with outstanding Finger Skills to specifically do the shaping for pastries.